Iran Survived. Now What? | Espresso Martini
Chris and Matt dig into the fine print of the U.S.-Iran memorandum signed this week by President Trump in Versailles, separating what Tehran banks immediately — sanctions relief, frozen funds, an open...
20 Jun 1h 6min
Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the Age of US China Competition | Ahana Datta Fasel
Ahana Datta Fasel began as an ethical hacker for the British government before becoming cyber chief at the Financial Times, where nation-state actors targeting journalists became a daily reality. Her ...
13 Jun 1h
Iran, China, and the New Middle East | Ahmed Aboudouh from Chatham House
Ahmed Aboudouh — associate fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme and head of the China Studies Unit at the Emirates Policy Center — joins Chris to assess the shifting archit...
11 Jun 48min
Think Like a Spy: What Intelligence Work Really Teaches About People | Julian Fisher
Julian Fisher spent his career as a British intelligence operative before distilling what he learned into the Think Like a Spy: Strategic Relations Workshop—and his central argument is counterintuitiv...
6 Jun 1h 9min
A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: CIA, MI6, and Covert Action in Cold War Albania | Stephen Long
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, CIA and MI6 launched an audacious series of clandestine operations to infiltrate and destabilize Communist Albania — and lost nearly every agent they sent in. Histor...
4 Jun 54min
Gabbard Resigns, Trump Meets Xi, and China's Capitol Hill Spy Pitch | Espresso Martini
Chris and Matt break down a packed few weeks in intelligence and geopolitics, opening with the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence — a departure framed officially around ...
31 Mai 1h 17min
America’s War Powers Crisis | Brian Finucane
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Congress hasn't formally done so since 1942. Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer and current senior adviser at the Internati...
23 Mai 58min
A Spy at War | Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont spent years as an MI6 officer running human sources before turning to fiction—and his second novel, A Spy at War, carries the authority of someone who has actually done the work. Set ...
16 Mai 1h 12min
